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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Social Cooling (2017)

2692

2

Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

1624

3

CRDTs are the future

1181

4

Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads

996

5

They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

987

6

Someone has stolen my Instagram account

976

7

Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes

913

8

Amnesia is now open source

902

9

Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster

865

10

852

Top Ask HN

1

How to learn sales?

865

2

What are good life skills for people to learn?

254

3

Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power in the next 10 years?

138

4

I am “trapped” in a senior engineering role, how can I escape?

107

5

Best Recipe Search Engine?

99

6

Video recommendation platform as a way to compete with YouTube?

67

7

Technical skills helpful for building a startup today

48

8

Should Google remove medium.com from search results?

37

9

How do I help an underperforming team get on track

34

10

How does one lead a team in a hackathon?

31

Top Show HN

1

A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations

426

2

Mono Icons – A simple, consistent open-source icon set

333

3

DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS

241

4

Headless Recorder

224

5

Keyboard Simulator – virtual keyboard designer

210

6

Open-Source Memex – Alternative Approach to Roam/Obsidian

188

7

Video Transcoder on the browser using WASM

129

8

A simple way to set goals you actually follow

129

9

Elsa – A QuickJS wrapper written in Go

126

10

Parametric Equalizer for PulseAudio

119

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

YouTube is shutting down crowdsourced captions

423

2

Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven

381

3

Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was dishonest, says judge

277

4

Mark in the Middle

257

5

US college enrollments are falling, except for graduate degrees

213

6

179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown

200

7

The long lost manual for the Zuse Z4 has been found

182

8

Microsoft had a secret Windows XP theme that made it look like a Mac

148

9

Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network

121

10

How Iranian diaspora is using old-school tech to fight internet shutdown at home

115

News [?]

1

Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest

622

2

How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes

565

3

California to Require All New Vehicles Be Zero-Emission by 2035

528

4

MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating

491

5

Adequate Vitamin D Levels Cuts Risk of Dying from Covid-19 in Half, Study Finds

372

6

Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores

337

7

After simple dental surgery, a man lost his ability to form new memories

333

8

Leak reveals $2T of possibly corrupt US financial activity

318

9

Trump’s Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance

290

10

Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'

274

Scientific publications [?]

1

Be skeptical of Ring's indoor security drone

232

2

Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?

156

3

US probe to touch down on asteroid Bennu on October 20

122

4

Impact of xenoestrogens on male fertility: a systematic review (2019)

80

5

Dennis Ritchie never got his PhD because he didn't file his dissertation

37

6

The pace of environmental change can doom or save coral reefs

29

7

5G wireless may lead to inaccurate weather forecasts

14

8

Facebook AI Survey on “Preserving Integrity in Online Social Networks”

12

9

Paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible

9

10

It's Not Just Size That Matters: Small Models with Performance Similar to GPT-3

9

Dev Blogs [?]

1

New Features in the Fish Shell

316

2

Toward a “modern” Emacs

286

3

Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

209

4

United States vs. Dread Pirate Roberts (Silk Road) FBI Report (2013) [pdf]

99

5

Free, Privacy-First Analytics for a Better Web

72

6

Python 3.9 is around the corner

71

7

Building even faster interpreters in Rust

45

8

Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?

23

9

‘We Blew It.’ Douglas Rushkoff’s Take on the Future of the Web

21

10

Govt. Services Firm Tyler Technologies Hit in Apparent Ransomware Attack

14

Tech blogs [?]

1

Intel Launches 10nm Atom Embedded CPUs: Elkhart Lake Now Available

84

2

Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Fold Available for Preorder: Hold onto Your Wallet

57

3

YAYA, a new threat hunting tool from EFF Threat Lab

52

4

ASRock 4x4-Box UCFF NUC PC Series Goes Premium with Ryzen 4000U Renoir APUs

6

5

Dynamic Soaring: 545 MPH RC Planes Have No Motor

5

6

Windows XP Source Code Reportedly Leaked, Posted to 4chan

4

7

Dynamic Soaring: 545 mph RC planes have no motor

4

8

Epic Games Unlikely to Win Injunction in Ongoing Fortnite Battle with Apple

4

9

Asus PN50 Mini-PC, with Ryzen Mobile 4000 APUs

4

10

Upcoming Xbox App Update Will Let Xbox Users Stream Games to iPhone and iPad

4

FAANG+ [?]

1

Luna – Cloud gaming service

267

2

Tests Not Included: How LoanStreet Built a PPP Platform in One Week

6

3

Microsoft – Responsibly collect higher quality data for AI/ML

3

4

Microsoft Security: detecting empires in the cloud

3

5

Dialogue as Dataflow: A new approach to conversational AI

3

6

Project InnerEye open-source deep learning toolkit

2

7

Dialogue as Dataflow

2

8

Introducing AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

2

9

Update to Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan

2

10

Apple India Online Store

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology

528

2

The bridges portrayed on Euro banknotes aren't fictional anymore

165

3

How far into the Americas did the Vikings travel?

160

4

Using lasers to reduce drag in hypersonic weapons

118

5

Research: Average Age of a Successful Founder is 45

104

6

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums 2003 vs. 2012 vs. 2020

93

7

Byte magazine (1984): Benchmarking Unix

86

8

Memorizing a Deck of Cards

73

9

Watch a Tesla Fail an Automatic Braking Test and Vaporize a Robot Pedestrian

66

10

Program Synthesis Papers by Area

63

Science News [?]

1

$1 hearing aid could treat millions with hearing loss

633

2

Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists

311

3

Physicists argue that black holes from the Big Bang could be the dark matter

180

4

133

5

How to digitize your lab notebooks

118

6

Complexity Scientist Beats Traffic Jams Through Adaptation

112

7

Regenerative Dentistry Breakthrough: Biological Therapy for Damaged Teeth

111

8

Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World’s Oldest Libraries (2017)

108

9

Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 (2019)

99

10

Rolls-Royce concludes testing of plane technology to break electric speed record

90

Social [?]

1

They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

987

2

Someone has stolen my Instagram account

976

3

WSL Getting GUI Support

283

4

YouTube closing 10yr old guitar teaching channel, without clear copyright claim

223

5

197

6

Writing System Software (2018) [video]

171

7

Update on YouTube copyright dispute over guitar tutorials [video]

171

8

Today is LibreOffice 10th Anniversary

145

9

James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and Computing History [video]

125

10

Yesterday's Google outage was a pool of routing servers crashing

124

Github repos and gists [?]

1

OBS Studio 26.0

382

2

Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound

337

3

Wireflow – an open-source flowchart real-time collaboration tool

276

4

Create system diagrams with Go

247

5

VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform Library

220

6

195

7

Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

191

8

Caramel: an Erlang back end for OCaml

189

9

TamaGo – bare metal Go for ARM SoCs

184

10

Python for Kids: A Comprehensive Python Development Tutorial for Kids

180

Wikipedia [?]

1

Neolithic Signs in China

33

2

11

3

10

4

Aristotle's Views on Women

10

5

Timeline of Binary Prefixes

7

6

Religious qualifications for public office in the United States

6

7

Simula, first object-oriented language

5

8

5

9

Global Temperature Record

4

10

3

Blogs [?]

1

I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language

214

2

Modernize your Bash Scripts by adding GUI

68

3

Are We in a Reddit Trading Bubble?

28

4

Introducing WhyLogs: Embrace Data Logging Across Your ML Systems

25

5

Flutter for Windows Alpha

23

6

Working When You Don't Want To

17

7

We built a new design system in Voog. And made it free to everyone

17

8

London and the Anxiety Threshold

15

9

Design Patterns, Smalltalk, and the lost art of reading code

15

10

/e/OS redefines the mobile OS paradigm for a more sustainable world

13

Stackoverflow [?]

1

SSE code 6 times slower without VZEROUPPER on Skylake (2016)

65

2

Why does 127.001 route to 127.0.0.1 and 127.011 route to 127.0.0.9?

5

3

Stopped Contributing

3

4

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? – Stack Overflow

3

5

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

3

6

Kafka consumer group can freeze if you do a rolling deployment

2

7

Any good reasons for using hex over decimal for RGB colour values in CSS?

2

8

Why arrange is spelled arange?

2

9

Recommendations for C Profilers

2

10

Sort function C++ segmentation fault

2

Substack [?]

1

How to Get Promoted

788

2

You're enlightened – now what?

213

3

Password-cracking theory against Assange unravels at extradition trial

201

4

The K-shaped recovery

159

5

How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better at life

74

6

Want to increase developer productivity? Flow is what matters

45

7

Adventures in hill climbing with AI

31

8

Cheerleading, Monopolies and Sexual Predators

15

9

Is it moral/ethical to buy a Tesla?

12

10

Developer-Led Landscape: 800 Companies, 1000 Products, $40B in Revenues

5